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When a writer from the glory days of the Doctor Who 2005 reboot waded in on Doctor Who and its potential downfall, it was sure to attract some attention. Robert Shearman spoke with Doctor Who Magazine a few weeks back, where he echoed earlier comments by Former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury.
Spilsbury had declared the show dead, at least in this iteration. Shearman agreed with this. He also went further.
After Ncuti Gatwa’s version of the Time Lord regenerated into actress Billie Piper, who played companion Rose in the early days of the reboot series, Shearman said that the ambiguity over her role makes it very difficult for Doctor Who to move forward n any other form right now.
“No one’s going to start writing Doctor Who books with a Billie Piper Doctor, because no one knows what that means. In a funny way, the closing moments of The Reality War seem to put a full stop on things. We didn’t have that before.”
Poor reviews, failure to capture a larger number of viewers via the lucrative deal with Disney+, and reports that Disney wants to move on have dogged the show.
However, one person is pushing back. Series executive producer Jane Tranter has given an interview to BBC Radio Wales, reported by SFFGazette.com, where she had this to say:
“That’s really rude, actually, and really untrue. The plans for Doctor Who are really simply this: the BBC and BBC Studios had a partnership with Disney+ for 26 episodes.
We are currently 21 episodes down into that 26-episode run. We have got another five episodes of [spin-off series] The War Between The Land And The Sea to come. At some point after that, decisions will be made together with all of us about what the future of Doctor Who entails.
It’s a 60-year-old franchise. It’s been going for 20 years nonstop since we brought it back in 2005 [when I worked at the BBC]. You would expect it to change, wouldn’t you?
Nothing continues the same always, or it shouldn’t continue the same always. So it will change in some form or another. But the one thing we can all be really clear about is that the Doctor will be back and everyone, including me, including all of us, just has to wait patiently to see when — and who.”
The series is produced in Wales via Bad Wolf Productions. The status of showrunner Russell T Davies also remains unresolved.
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